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ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comTue, 03 Mar 2015 20:38:11 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: ray21230http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1612244
Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:51:07 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1612244Sorry i am a Baltimore man, i hope the Irsays get screwed in every way possible for leaving us in the middle of the night, i hope those mayflower trucks deliver all of Peytons money to him
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:31:12 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1612014Best possible landing place for Manning would be Houston. And since Colts are in full blown rebuilding mode so what if same division.
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:23:21 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611995The Giants should sign him as Eli’s backup!! :-)
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:54:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611893Swamp Boy-again?
Gee dude you are a riot.
]]>By: jetsjetsjetsjetshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611856
Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:38:13 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611856They will PAY him and then trade either Payton or Andrew Luck. It sets them up for years to come and it only costs money. they could probably get most of the cash back in the trade!!!!
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:08 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611780He isn’t effing anything up. He’s letting due process run its course. Quit whining already. So easy to spend other peoples money, isn’t it?
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:02:00 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611763Just cut the guy today – get it out of the way.

But that would make FAR too much sense, and we can coun t on irsay to f..k things up.

Manning is toast, cut him and let everybody move on. Why dabble with the deadline, he’s done being a Colt… and whoever is stoopid enough to sign him for 2012, you deserve what you get and good luck in the 2013 Barkley/Jones sweepstakes.

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“Stoopid”.. really?

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:01:37 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611455why can’t they wait until the last minute? it is their decision.

my guess is he retires at a presser friday afternoon.

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:01:09 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611454There is really no point in not making a decision right now one way or another. Initially, I was sympathetic with the Colts because it’s tough to cut a legend for the future good of the team, and yet they have to do it. Yet, but dragging it out before giving him the axe, they are coming off as jerks.
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:54:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611442So what is the difference between the language that describes the window between “the second day after the Super Bowl and the fourth day before the end of the 2011 league year” and “the second day before the end of the 2011 league year”?

If the money can be paid any time between 2-days-post-SB and 4-days-pre-EoLY, then the implication seems to be that it *can’t* be paid outside of that window… which a 2-day-pre-EoLY deadline would describe.

In effect, I think the difference is that the Colts must pay Peyton before the 8th (the 4th-day-pre-EoLY), even if they have until Friday @ 4:00 (the business-effective 2nd-day-pre-EoLY) to decide to cut him. Since the money isn’t affirmatively earned until the 2nd-day-pre-EoLY, Peyton would have to then turn around and repay the money if the Colts decided to part ways.

I guess what I’m getting at is that this doesn’t change anything. If they don’t pay him by Thursday, the language of the contract seems to say that they cannot pay him, so that is effectively the termination of the contract. On the other hand, they could pay him and then still cut him within 24 hours… as unlikely as that is. I can’t see the Colts paying the $28 million just to have another 24 hours (from Thursday the 8th @ 4PM to Friday the 9th @ 4PM) to think about what they want to do.

If they don’t pay him by the 8th, we’ll know he’s gone.
If they *do* pay him, we won’t be sure that he’s staying until the 9th (@ 4PM).

Mike, can you confirm this interpretation? Or clarify?

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:53:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611438Manning is toast, cut him and let everybody move on. Why dabble with the deadline, he’s done being a Colt… and whoever is stoopid enough to sign him for 2012, you deserve what you get and good luck in the 2013 Barkley/Jones sweepstakes.
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:50:38 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611435ghost,

Because they can?

Announcing it today or next week doesn’t really help or hurt either party. It only causes more drama for sites like this and all of us on them :)

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:48:12 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611430Surely Irsay and company know exactly what they’re going to be doing with Manning. There aren’t any questions that will gain clarity by Friday, nor are there any variables in this that will change by then.

I just don’t understand why they want to take this thing to the wire.

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:46:10 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611428If no league business can be transacted on weekends, wouldn’t “second day before” the end of the league year mean second business day, i.e., Friday? In which case they’d still have to cut him by March 8, because if he’s on the roster Friday they owe him the bonus.
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:40:06 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611418nebster21 says:
Mar 6, 2012 10:02 AM
well not so much the Colts but Irsay for messing with him.

yeah man that Irsay – giving him 26 mil last year to not play a down – the NERVE of him!

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:39:38 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611416What are they waiting for? Does this have to be this dramatic, Jim, you fired your whole team besides Manning, like we don’t know what your gonna do. Do it already!
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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:39:22 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611415mjkelly77 says:

your swampboy thing is so cute

Peyton got more for his 10 year old allowance than you make now

And you must be the ONE person who knows he’s done – nobody else does yet. How is it being so smart? I bet the pressure is tremendous.

I see P. Manning going to either the Texans or the Cardinals. The Bidwells have a history of being rather cheap so the Texans makes more sense if they can figure a way to massage Matt Schaub’s feelings.
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Apparently you haven’t been keeping up with the Texans much. Manning would be a terrible move for Houston. The Texans offense is based on the running game, play-action passing, and roll-outs. That is not Peyton’s style. He is a 100% Pocket Passer.

Kubiak is not a flexible offensive coach. He knows what he wants his offense to look like. And it took 6 seasons for that offense to finally become what he was trying to build in the first place. As a Texans fan I’d been frustrated for 5 seasons because he wouldn’t change his game plans. Now I finally see why. So why would Kubiak want to bring in the highest priced QB’s on market who doesn’t fit the model of game play for his offense??

Not to mention the fact that we simply don’t have the cap room to win a bidding war for Manning.

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:33:32 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611403“Someone needs to tell Irsay to grow a pair, this way we can end this garbage.”
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